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‘Killing Them Softly,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

Marshall Fine November 28, 2012 November 28, 2012 Members / Recent News

HollywoodandFine.com While crime fiction with an edge of both menace and wit have become mainstays on TV, movies haven’t been able to consistently blend the two in recent years, with most attempts seeming either too hyperbolic and action-y or too self-consciously noir-y. Now comes “Killing Them Softly,” which may be …

‘California Solo,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

Marshall Fine November 27, 2012 November 27, 2012 Members / Recent News

HollywoodandFine.com The marvelous Scottish actor Robert Carlyle has been a fixture in films large and small for 20-plus years, but no one has written a part for him that gives him the chance to show his range the way Marshall Lewy has in “California Solo” (opening in limited release Friday, …

‘Red Dawn,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

Marshall Fine November 26, 2012 November 26, 2012 Members / Recent News

HollywoodandFine.com John Milius’ “Red Dawn,” released in 1984, was a simplistic, militaristic rabble-rouser of a film, a Reagan-era Cold War relic that offered lots of rah-rah about how mighty the United States fighting spirit was, even when its military was taken out of the picture. It looked silly and dated …

‘Life of Pi,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

Marshall Fine November 21, 2012 November 21, 2012 Members / Recent News

HollywoodandFine.com A fascinating fable about the meaning of both faith and fate, “Life of Pi” is a wonderfully visual telling of a Yann Martel’s best-selling and award-winning novel. Director Ang Lee raises the bar on digital imagery, even as he puts it in service to his story. He’s also one …

‘Rust and Bone,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

Marshall Fine November 20, 2012 November 20, 2012 Members / Recent News

HollywoodandFine.com The visual trickery will catch your attention – but it’s the performance behind it that will hold you and move you in Jacques Audiard’s “Rust and Bone,” opening Wednesday (11/21/12) in limited release. The director of the harrowing “Un Prophete” – with its gritty violence and interracial tensions in …

‘Hitchcock,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

Marshall Fine November 19, 2012 November 19, 2012 Members / Recent News

HollywoodandFine.com Pity poor Toby Jones. A few years ago, he got what he probably thought was the role of a lifetime, playing Truman Capote in “Infamous,” a movie about the writing of “In Cold Blood.” Then Philip Seymour Hoffman swooped in playing the title role in Bennett Miller’s “Capote,” winning …

‘Anna Karenina,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

Marshall Fine November 14, 2012 November 14, 2012 Members / Recent News

HollywoodandFine.com The heart wants what the heart wants, as Woody Allen so famously said. That’s not news to the writers of tragic fiction. Misplaced affection – or the death of one love at the birth of another – is the bedrock of classic tales as diverse as “An American Tragedy” …

‘Silver Linings Playbook,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

Marshall Fine November 13, 2012 November 13, 2012 Members / Recent News

HollywoodandFine.com Feel-good movies about people with mental disorders – from “As Good As It Gets” to “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” and beyond – face the same challenge. They have to take the psychological issues they deal with – depression, OCD, bipolar disorder – seriously enough to avoid trivializing …

‘Price Check,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

Marshall Fine November 12, 2012 November 12, 2012 Members / Recent News

HollywoodandFine.com It has been years – at least since Zoe Cassavetes’ underseen “Broken English” and perhaps since she burst on to the scene in the early 1990s – since Parker Posey has had a role as meaty and perfect for her as Susan Felders in Michael Walker’s “Price Check.” Walker’s …

‘A Royal Affair,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

Marshall Fine November 9, 2012 November 9, 2012 Members / Recent News

HollywoodandFine.com Enlightenment, as we learned this week, is a two-way street. Or, as Dorothy Parker once said, you can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think. Lest you think that we are living in a unique period in history – with half the country believing in angels but …